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by curi 19y ago
No? Show me serious writing by an atheist, explaining how morality exists and isn't religious?
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by curi 19y ago
most atheists seem to think morality is a religious idea. like dawkins.
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by curi 19y ago
maybe people over, say, 500 karma? seems like enough. reaching the leaderboard is a lot harder than a fixed number.
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by curi 19y ago
well, what your experience was is that you learned that while at school. but that doesn't necessarily mean school taught it to you. it could also be that school actually makes it harder to learn that, but also puts so much pressure on peopl
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by curi 19y ago
I learned (initially) from Mario Teaches Typing, at home. I imagine this was considerably more enjoyable than learning at school.
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by curi 19y ago
i don't know about the MtG online interface, but the game itself is very well done.
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by curi 19y ago
lol yeah the UI doesn't work so well with heavy nesting
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by curi 19y ago
you compare using email to plan things to drunk driving, so i think that counts as bashing. it's your decision if you want to market yourselves that way, it could be for the best, i dunno. glad to hear you'll add details about what communic
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by curi 19y ago
you bash email (which i like, don't see what's wrong with it) but i didn't see how you notify my friends instead of by emailing them. personally, i'm only really available by AIM and email. maybe the target audience includes cell phone user
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by curi 19y ago
being able to download a PDF is an order of magnitude better than web-only.
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by curi 19y ago
Mistake 1: Dieting
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by curi 19y ago
What we should aim for, in the long term, is a tough question. But fortunately we don't need to know that, now. What's much easier is determining some good short term goals, and then after completing them, determining the next set of short
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by curi 19y ago
Regarding contradicting goals: I think the way to tie things together is a common endpoint (the truth of the matter). If you move all your goals in that direction, it will cause them to become progressively less contradictory. You can als
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by curi 19y ago
Regarding criticism, perhaps we can agree that enjoying and seeking out good criticism is important. That means, for example, if you know a source that has a good chance to provide some partially true criticism you may not have thought of
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by curi 19y ago
Regarding subjectivity, I intended no trick. I'll drop it after this comment, and you can have the last word if you want. I'm not even going to make a full argument, but I do want to point out that if people from many cultures/eras/etc have
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by curi 19y ago
All those ways of insulting people are based in an ageist perspective, and one certainly can object to them. For example, saying an asshole needs to grow up, is demeaning him by saying he is in an undesirable state (not grown up) which impl
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by curi 19y ago
Regarding subjectivity, if you assert morality is subjective, you don't have a leg to stand on in saying I was wrong. What would that even mean? I was right, for me, or whatever. Regarding "forging ahead": Scheduling criticism is a differen
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by curi 19y ago
To any disagreeable people reading this: please bear in mind that if you say the following ideas are incorrect, and that therefore I am incorrect to say morality can be approached objectively ... you will be contradicting yourself, because
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by curi 19y ago
Deutsch only has one book out, which is very good. My only warning is that half of it is sort of off topic (physics, virtual reality, computation, time travel). But that's ok, because of the density of ideas fit into each chapter. http://w
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by curi 19y ago
If it's any help: I don't think there is any such thing as 'human nature', though I do think there is a lot of complex knowledge in cultures that achieves some of the same practical results. I don't think the purpose of morality, or life, i
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by curi 19y ago
I think we are talking past each other. You are talking about morality, in the common sense semi-religious meaning. I am talking about "morality" referring only to the propositions I'd just put forward about how to live. When you say "faili
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by curi 19y ago
These are just starting points. I do think goals are themselves good or bad, but it's much harder to explain how you can objectively make assertions like that, so I wanted to make the lesser claim, for now: there are ways to explore moral
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by curi 19y ago
That was a brief summary and one can say it more carefully. Most importantly, immorality is not a boolean thing. If you aren't accomplishing a goal, it'd be an improvement (more moral, a better way of life) to either change your approach, o
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by curi 19y ago
it's not necessarily ironic. maybe they didn't like how you used "grown up" to imply that children have the various bad traits you listed. which isn't a very reasonable or informative description of children.
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by curi 19y ago
yeah i know. what pg said as well. still reminded me.
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by curi 19y ago
You give a good example: which policies towards the market create more wealth (on average, various things being equal) is a matter of fact. But I think this sort of non-arbitrary approach to thinking has much wider applicability, and indeed
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by curi 19y ago
I don't use any social networks. I do have my email and website (with real name) in my profile, though.
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by curi 19y ago
You should refute mistaken ideas with better ideas. If you want to downmod, it's no big deal. But there seems to be some proportion of the audience that feels vindicated in their views just because the opposite view was downmodded. Downmodd
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by curi 19y ago
There's only a truth to the matter if you can get people to agree on a premise. Two libertarians who adopt the same premises can have a meaningful debate This is the myth of the framework. See Popper's book by that name: http://www.amazo
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by curi 19y ago
it's not clear to me that nastiness is more common at hacker forums. a certain kind is. but i've seen much nastier stuff on parenting forums (which i've been to a lot). on parenting forums, you don't find so many jerks. when people are me

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